therbo
About
- Username
- therbo
- Joined
- Visits
- 0
- Last Active
- -
- Roles
- member
- Badges
- 0
- Posts
- 70
Reactions
Comments
-
Quote: Originally Posted by Marc Rogoff Who paid the Judge off? I have never heard of such a bizarre and might I say juvenile ruling....extraordinary. No one, the judge used common sense.
-
Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX 1) Apple didn't invent the marketing term "world mode." 2) Most of the world is not using "800Mhz". 3) Simply referring to both an up and downlink frequency band as "800Mhz" means you ar…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Usually, when one mentions a world phone, one is just talking about making phone calls. Data support is additional. But here, supporting China Mobile is critical. There are already 15 million iPhone…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I'n not sure what your point is. The use of "world mode" even though without TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE it still works in that part of the world via CDMA/CDMA2000/GSM/UTMS. I guess I can see that poi…
-
You do realise there is already GSM networks in China? So this wont allow you to roam into any more countries, exactly the same that happened between the 4 and 4S. The amount of research that AppleInsider does into mobile technology is incre…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Good, so I was right. Thanks! Huh? I was using that link to back me up, they don't exist but some do. However they are usually invalidated if brought to court, alot of them have b…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Without checking anything to see if this is the case, my gut reaction is that's wrong. http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Do_software_patents_exist_in_my_area#Europe
-
This is why I'm glad software patents dont exist in Europe.
-
I don't see how this is anything new. Outside of the US, company's sell the exact same phone and exact same name on all networks. Its just due to the US's fragmentation that this never happened in the US, and un-surprisingly Samsung has had to mak…
-
This is an American company trying to force false terminology onto countries where the right terminology exist. In the UK we don't consider HSPA+ to be 4G, we don't even consider DC-HSPA 3G despite the fact it gets near-same-speeds as LTE. So…
-
Its weird, us Europeans have never ever had to restore our iPhones when unlocking them, and we've been able to unlock them for 4 years.
-
Quote: Originally Posted by williaje This is why apple waits to roll out new wireless technologies, until they are widespread and have more standards. Average customers are confused, even "informed" consumers can get confused. That doesn't mak…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by aaarrrgggh That would be a pretty stupid goal. The Fire is designed (and marketed) to be an effective conduit to Amazon's store and nothing else. Google can't compete there. Amazon don't even sell the Kindle outsi…
-
If you goto http://www.apple.com/uk/ipad/ showing as 4G.
-
Quote: Originally Posted by paxman Launching a product world wide and advertising its 4g capability when in fact it only has this capability in north America seems like shooting yourself in the foot. Did Apple really use 4g as a selling point int…
-
Wouldn't surprise me if ASA got involved in UK. Apple Store Employees are selling it saying it connects to 4G.
-
Quote: Originally Posted by svale . But it does not - hence why the ACCC has jumped in. Look, all the stuff I've seen on AI, Ars, MacRumors, TUAW and so on have been written from a very US-centric perspective. Being an Australian, I thought I'…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX What haven't I accepted? I've clearly stated that it would behoove Apple to follow the laws of a country that has chosen to define what is 4G even if it's silly, irrational and goes against the ITU's definit…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by drblank What i have been told is that the chipset Apple is using doesn't support the other bands that some markets are installing. Is there a chipset that supports ALL of the different bands for all of the different t…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by WardC This is so dumb, anybody with a brain would realize that the iPad is 4G capable, it has 4G modem circuitry inside, that means IF THERE IS a 4G network available, it will operate at 4G speed. A consumer should kno…